NSA Contractor Stole 50 Terabytes of Information Over 20 Years

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A former NSA contractor is expected to plead guilty in what officials say may be the largest heist of intelligence data in U.S. history.

On Wednesday, attorneys for Navy veteran Harold Martin filed a guilty plea to one count of willful retention of national defense information.

Martin was arrested in august of 2016 when law enforcement officials discovered 50 terabytes of data at his Maryland home.

Martin faces 19 other charges for stealing documents related to U.S. Cyber Command, the CIA, and the National Reconnaissance Office.

The government has not said if Martin did anything with the data.

He is expected to submit his guilty plea on January 22.

Via OAN